Adjustable tape-frame.



Pa tented Oct. 31,1916.

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MOSES B. DISKIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

ADJUSTABLE TAPE-FRAME.

Application filed April 14, 1916.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Mosns B. DISKIN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Adjustable Tape-Frame, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to adjustable tape frames for winding tapes, particularly those which are used in connection with the manufacture of paper boxes. An object thereof is to provide a simple, inexpensive, and adjustable frame whereby tape sections of any predetermined length may be obtained.

A further object of the invention is to provide a frame for tapes which can be easily and quickly changed from one size to a different size of tape.

With the above and other objects in View, the nature of which will more fully appear as the description proceeds, the invention consists in the novel construction, combina tion and arrangement of parts as herein fully described, illustrated and claimed.

'In the accompanying drawings, forming part of the application, similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a machine provided with an embodiment of my invention; Fig. 2 is a plan view of the frame; Fig. 3 is a fragmentary section on the frame bracket on line 3-3, Fig. 4; Fig. 4 is a fragmentary section on line 44 of the said bracket in Fig. 3; Fig. 5 is a fragmentary section through the cooperating bracket; and Fig. 6 is a rear elevation of the said bracket.

Referring to the drawings, 7 is the carrier of the frame in which a right-and-left screw 8 is free to revolve. It also carries a guide rod 9 in spaced parallel relation with the screw 8. The deflection between the rod and the screw is prevented by end pieces 10 secured to the rod and constituting bearings for the screw 8. A reduced end of the screw projects through an end piece to receive a crank handle 11, whereby the screw may be revolved in the carrier 7.

The oppositely threaded portions of the screw 8 each carry the head of an arm 12, the arms extending laterally from the screw.

The heads also engage the guide rod 9 to Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 31, 1916.

Serial No. 91,165.

prevent said arms from turning with the screw and to maintain the arms in alinement. Each arm 12 has an end projection 13 pointing in a direction away from the other arm and in the plane with the arm. Each arm has a lug 14 extending from the head of the arm, preferably in a direction opposite. One of the lugs 14 has a hook 15 to receive the end of an automatically-windlng-up measuring tape 16, which tape is clamped in a socket 17 provided on the lug 14 of the other arm. The lugs 14 are ofiset from the head in the same direction as the extensions of the same arm, to compensate for the portions of tape about the arms. The army proper preferably tapers to the outer edges to offer a greater surface of contact to the tape to be wound thereupon.

The carrier 7 is provided with alining trunnions 18 bearing in the frame extensions 19 of the spool frame 20, so that the arms are free to pass between said frame extensions when said carrier is revolved through the medium of a crank handle 21 secured to one of the trunnions of the carrier. The spools of tape 22 supported in the frame 20 are threaded through a guide 23 before they are connected to one of the arms 12 of the tape frame. In revolving the carrier by means of the handle 21 the arms are caused to revolve and the tape is wound about said arms.

l/Vhen a sufficient quantity oftape has been wound on the frame, to remove the tape from the frame, one side thereof is sheared across, whereby the desired length of tape section results. By revolving the handle 11 the distance between the arms. 12 may be varied, and, consequently, various lengths of tape may be obtained, the length being indicated by the measuring tape 16. The number of tape sections wound is indicated by the revolution counter 24 indicating the number of revolutions of the carrier 7.

My adjustable tape frame is particularly adaptable to be used in the paper-box trade, where tapes of various lengths are used, often in frequent intervals. With my machine it is possible to make such changes expeditiously and exactly without waste of tape.

I claim:

1. In combination, a tape frame comprising a carrier mounted to revolve, a rightand-left screw revolubly mounted in said carrier, an arm for engaging tape for each threaded portion of the screw, means for maintaining the arms in alinement and preventing them from turning when the screw is turned, a self-winding tape measure carried by one of said arms, and means for engaging said tape measure associated with the other arm.

2. A tape frame comprising a carrier mounted to revolve, a right-and-left screw revolubly mounted in the carrier, a guide rod in the carrier in spaced, parallel relation with the screw, end members connecting the screw with the carrier and constituting bearings for the ends of said screw, and an arm for each threaded portion of the screw engaging the guide rod, whereby said arm is prevented from turning when the screw is turned, said arm having an end extension directed away from the other arm and in a direction substantially parallel with the screw.

'3. In combination, a carrier mounted to revolve, a right-and-left screw revolubly mounted between its ends in the carrier, a rod secured to the carrier between its ends, end pieces connecting the extremities of the rod to the screw, saidend pieces constituting end bearings for said screw, a crank associated with the screw for revolving the same, and an arm for each threaded portion of the screw extending laterally therefrom, each arm engaging the guide rod, whereby the twoarms are maintained parallel and extending in the same direction from the screw during the displacement thereof on the rod, each of said arms having an end projectionpointing in a direction opposite from the other arm, one of the said arms having means for accommodating a 'self= winding tape, and the other o'f'said arms having ineans' for engaging one end of the tape.

a. In combination, a carrier mounted to revolve, a right-and-left screw revolubly mounted in the carrier, a rod secured to the carrier in spaced parallel relation'with the screw, means for revolving the screw in the carrier, an arm for each threaded portion of the screw engaging'the rod whereby the two arms are maintained parallel andextending in the same direction from the s'crew,-each of said arms-having an end proj ection pointing in a direction opposite from the other arm, and means associated with the arms for indicating the "distance therebetween.

MOSES B. DISKI'N.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Baten'ts, 'Washington, 3J.*G.' 

